If you’re in Brownhills tomorrow, it would be an excellent opportunity to purchase a signed copy of Brian Stringer’s excellent and popular book ‘The Clayhanger Kid’. Now available in a limited reprint after the first issue sold out within a couple of weeks, Brian will be undertaking another signing session at Brownhills Library in the Parkview Centre tomorrow, Saturday 5th March, 2011, from 11:00AM to 3:00pm. The last event was a huge success, and I wish the author all the best for this one, too.

Brian is hugely entertaining, and full of tales of our area, so the chance to have a chat and pick up a copy of this excellent, self-published work should not be missed by anyone interested in out local history. This book will sell out again rapidly, so if you haven’t done so, bag a copy fat the event tomorrow or from Downes Newsagents in Brownhills High Street.

In the mean time, take a look at these two Clayhanger group photos that Brian dug out a few weeks ago. How many old Clayhanger faces can you recall?

Clatyhanger Working Men's Club Blackpool daytrip group photo from the fifties.

Photo taken aparently outside the George & Dragon, from the same period.